detorqueat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →detorqueo, detorquere, detorsi, detortus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
turn/twist/bend/pull away/aside; deflect; deviate (path); divert; sway;; distort, bend out of shape; pervert, misrepresent, twist sense of, alter form;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
de Otio
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...nemo interuenit qui iudicium adhuc inbecillum populo adiutore detorqueat; tunc potest uita aequali et uno tenore procedere, quam..."
Liber Quartus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...pande diem, nec lucis egentes Cerberus occursu capitum detorqueat umbras.' dixerat, et pariter senior Phoebeaque uirgo erexere animos..."